Just firin' up a new room myself, ferncakes...
9' x 11'......3400 watts. 4- 600 electronic ballasts from Lumatek powerin Hortilux's... 1 mag/coil 1000 MH sitting in the middle...standard lamp tossin out the blues.
5 plants. DWC. 5 gal buckets. Got a Waterfarm column in there dripping 15 on/ 15 off....and airstones in the bottom. (gonna add more..which ones do you like/use?)
started vegging the clones June 5th. Just went 12/12 Saturday...about 6 weeks of veg. 2 strains. One is much larger so it will pose a challenge (she's in ther middle) but we'll make it work. The largest plant is about 4 ft tall and 4 ft wide...the other 4 are about 3 x 3...and SUPER bushy.
So...do you pistlwhip/trim the stem heavily for bud growth on yer approach or do you let em just go? Still trying to decide which way to go here...
but yeah..lotsa closets here..if that. I've seen kiddies growing UNDER THEIR BED here...foookin amazin. And the CFL crowd is stronger here than ANY other cannabis site I've been./am a member of. Other forums MIGHT have a special section for CFL grows...but on most sites...it just seems a moot point because folks are more SERIUOUS about growing than that.
to each their own..but...LOL....I could care less about energy savings...I want my bud.
good luck bro
bt dt